My 3 yr old american bulldog passed away this morning.
The weird thing is that we have no clue why. I fed all the dogs like usual and we let them out for their morning hour run in the yard. We called all of them back in and everyone came but cotton which isnt uncommon if she finds something she wont come. So i shut the door and went and got dressed. While i am doing this winston my giant is frantically running to me and then back to the door which he does if someone is left out or if he has to go potty.
I walk outside and mind you i have 8 acres all fenced in that the dogs can have full access to but my bf had locked the gate last night because it got to be 25 degrees last night which is freezing for mobile alabama. When we let them out last night we didnt want to have to bunddle up and get on the forwheelers looking for dogs. So last night they only had access to about an acre.
We went out side and cotton is nowhere in site. we go to the gate and it is open weird huh! So we go to the barn and all the horses are in the stalls waiting to be let out and still no cotton. I am getting very worried at this piont. Then i saddled up my mare and rode her up and down the fence line to see if i could find her still nowhere in sight. I ride back to the barn because at this point it has been an hour past she was suppose to be back inside and thought i might have just missed her and she is at the backdoor waiting on me.
I go to the barn and call my bf at the house to let the other dogs out cause she might be wondering the property and they probably could smell her and i had checked the entire fencing and all was secure. Well all 4 of the other dogs come running into the barn barking at the horses running up to me. And then my boxer started to act really funny and was running to the tack room and then back to me. I thought she had found a rat and the barn cats were inside last night so it was very likely.
I look around and see nothing out of the ordinary and brooklynn then jumps up on my tack box. I look behind it and sure enough there is cotton shaking. I pet her and new she didnt feel good. We carried her back to the house where she was still shaking. Now at first i thought she was hypothermic or something but that tack room was fully heated all night nd it was like a boiler room when i walked in there.
Well we rushed her to my vet and she died on the way there. I feel like a horrible mom cause she was acting fine when i let her out her same goofy self. The vet was going to do an autopsy to see what happened. Has anyone of you ever heard of a dog just dying like this.
